Car Insurance Quotes get the lowest rate quote when shopping insurance companies. Find the car insurance you need. - Insurance Questions
Question: Can you think of one gov program that worked as advertised and didn't cost a lot more than promised?
( Back )
Answer #1:
Your list is awful short, why didn't you include...Trickle down economics
Deregulation and privatization
Tax cuts
No bid contracts
Charter schools
Answer #2:
Yes, it's Social Security. If Reagan hadn't robbed the trust fund it would never have run out of money.Answer #3:
The entire problem with Government is that they have far to much of our money to spend and they have us all held hostage at the point of the IRS Gun . What do they care if their programs are inefficient or fraud ridden and wasteful ? The Feds will simply raise taxes to continue funding their waste and fraud .Charter schools were a lame attempt by the Dept of Education to 'privatize " a segment of the public education system . LBJ was the first to raid social security to help fund his lie called Vietnam .
Answer #4:
Well, there are some. Everyone hates the IRS but it does do a good job. The FAA runs air traffic control towers across the county and works very well. The FDA has uncovered some dangerous stuff and probably saved a bunch of lives. The NTSB is a world-wide model for investigative technique.But that's not really germane. Every other industrialized country has universal health care. Every other one. To assert that it's impossible here just doesn't make sense.
Of course we can do it. We must.
Answer #5:
Zardoz -The SS taxes have been spent on the annual budget under every President since Johnson. It is disingenuous to blame Reagan for that.
In other words Reagan assumed a SS fund with $0 and left a SS fund with $0
Answer #6:
None come to mind.Answer #7:
With KATRINA it was caused by the goverment and on top of that bush wouln't respond only afther pressue was put on him .as for the healthcare bill is concerned the part where you cannot drop healthcare because someone gets ill is great insurance companies are some of the worst you can deal with thats who this bill hurts and perhaps doctors that has their own practices I'm in the medical field and the one thing I can tell you is the poor gets medicare and medicaid the rich can afford it but the middle class go broke trying to afford it make too little to make it and too much to get help so they use their savings if someone gets ill to pay for it sad sad sad the middle is a bad place to live .Answer #8:
Social Security actually has worked well all these years, until Republican administrations begin outsourcing all our good-paying jobs and decreasing our revenues with huge tax cuts for the wealthiest 1.5% of Americans, and also until the Nixon-initiated for-profit HMOs that began a cycle of greed-driven practices which hurt businesses by overinflating health care costs, raising premiums at 3X-7X the rate of inflation, and then cutting services or under-serving those needing the care.The U.S. Post Office is well run, for the most part, although civilian management needs to be monitored to prevent greed or cruelty to workers from having a hatching ground.
The VA medical system, upon which I rely, is now being returned to its original efficiency, thanks to President Obama (and before him, to President Clinton), after being stripped and corporate-raided by the GOP/Bush-Cheney in their foolish and corrupt attempts to "privatize" everything in sight.
Our military (specifically, the troops) is socialist (government-run). Granted, the Defense Department budget has been highly over-inflated in the past, but we now have Robert Gates at the helm and a president who has given orders to all Department heads to go over each budget LINE BY LINE in order to discover any cost-overruns, or price-gouging practices, or double-billing---some of which has already been eliminated (i.e., State Department budget; Defense, with the cancellation of the Bush/Cheney-ordered 128 F-22 planes at $136 million each; etc.).
Our highways (also a socialist or government-run program) and mass transit have many laudable attributes, as do our public parks, public libraries, and bridges and tunnels (all government run).
Government in the United States is US...we, the people. We choose representatives and, if these representatives do not do as we ask, we oust them and choose some more. Government is as efficient and effective as we, the people, CHOOSE to have it be.
You also operate on the false assumption that President Obama's proposals for health care reforms are to be "government run"----NOT TRUE! Regulations (laws) are being passed to prevent abuses of consumers, which is OVERSIGHT and CONSUMER-PROTECTION that are what a government is supposed to provide. The 1300 for-profit greedy-guts (...er...insurance companies) will still exist---not government run, but YES government monitored for dirty-deed practices, such as cutting off a premium-paying customer as soon as that customer actually gets injured or ill, or preventing coverage for some trumped up "pre-existing" condition, or preventing the industry from arbitrarily declining to pay for a procedure the person's PHYSICIAN says is necessary.
As to the tax on sugary drinks (which is just in the proposal stage), sugary drinks cause health problems and are wildly popular among youngsters/teens, so the tax is being proposed to help pay for the health problems caused and as an incentive for our youngsters to consider a healthier alternative to soda pop. Seems sensible and fair to me. The Part D for Medicare was an unfunded mandate pushed through on "reconciliation" by Republicans that was NOT paid for in the Bush/Cheney budget. Once we expand our job base and get our manufacturing base returned to American soil, the revenues from salaries of AMERICAN workers will help with these deficits, as will the reduced costs of health care based on the CBO estimates of the health care/insurance reforms, the repayment of bailed-out bank loans WITH INTEREST ($179 BILLION in paybacks by 14 of the 400 banks who received taxpayer dollars), and so many other cost-cutting initiatives currently in play. We have a superbly COMPETENT leader in President Obama, so the problems you cited above from the Bush/Cheney/GOP regime are not on the agenda.
Answer #9:
Some great points Armchair Goddess!** Powered by Yahoo Answers